Device for cleaning or drying safety-razor blades.



E. e. WALLINDER.

DEVICE FOR CLEANING 0R DRYING SAFETY RAZOR BLADES. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28, 1916.

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ERICK G. WALLINDER, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO NORTHERN NOVELTY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

DEVICE FOR CLEANING OR DRYING SAFETY-RAZOR BLADES.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct, 9, 1917.

Application filed November 28, 1916. Serial No. 133,896.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERICK Gr. WALLINDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at 59th Ave. W. & Nicollet, in the city of Duluth, county of St. Louis, and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Cleaning or Drying Safety-Razor Blades, and of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for cleaning or drying safety-razor blades, in which metal blanks or strips bent apart at their ends and united at their centers, have attached to the opposed faces of their adjacent ends blade-engaging pads for cleaning or drying the blades of the safetyrazor; and the object of my improvement is to provide a new and more satisfactory means of attaching said pads to the metal blanks.

l attain this object by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the complete device, Fig. 2 represents the upper blank of the device, and Fig. 3 repre sents the lower blank, showing the inner surface of same. In these drawings similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Letters a, b, 0, (Z represent the outer surface of one of the blanks. a, Z), 6,0, and 6 e 0, d represent the ends of said blank bent inward at approximately right angles to the surface of the blank. Letters f, f, 7, 7, represent lugs cut out of the blank on two of their sides but not at the base, and forced inward so as to clamp down upon the pads, said pads to be inserted between these lugs and the bent down portion a, b, e, e and 6 e c, d respectively. 9, g, 9, represent the cleaning pads of rubber or other suitable material held in place by the lugs f, f and by the bent down portion a, Z), c, e, h, h represent the drying pads of felt or other suitable material held in place between the lugs 7, f and the turned down portion 6 0, d. K represents the approximate point at which the metal blanks are united.

The use and object of my device are, first, to clean soap, dirt, hair, or water off the razor blade after its use for shaving; and second, to .dry the razor blade after cleaning same, thereby preventing rust or discoloring ofthe steel, and keeping the blade bright and in good order, thus increasing also its time of usefulness. The cleaning is done by inserting the razor blade between the rubber pads, and pressing the latter together with the finger and thumb, and wiping the blade; the drying is done by inserting the razor blade between the felt pads, pressing the latter together with the finger and thumb with a wiping motion.

I am aware that prior to my invention clevices for cleaning or drying safety-razor blades have been made with pads attached to the metal blanks thereof, said blanks being bent apart at their ends and united at their centers. I, therefore, do not claim such invention broadly, but I claim:

A razor blade cleaning and drying device comprising in combination a sheet metal holder having the free end of each pad carrying portion thereof bent at substan tially right angles to the body portion, a lug or lugs spaced inwardly from each bent portion and fixed to the body portion of the holder, and a blade engaging pad inter mediate of the lug or lugs and the adjacent bent end portion of the holder.

E. G. VVALLINDER.

Witnesses:

WV. W. BLAcKsHAw, CHARLES J. KENNEDY.-

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

. Washington, D. G. 

